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Portraits of Renowned Scholars

Timeless portraits of influential scholars and artists, highlighting their personal styles and distinguished features.

CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882) Naturalist

Arsène Houssaye Made 1871-1878 France. Woodburytype, from the periodical ìGalerie Contemporaine LittÈraire, Artistiqueî (1878), volume 6 . Etienne Carjat

Portrait of Victor Hugo (1802-1885), writer and poet. Portrait of Victor Hugo (1802-1885), writer and poet. Photograph of Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, says - 1820-1910). Draw on albuminum paper. 1882-1885.

JEAN-JOSEPH-MARIE-AUGUSTE JAURES : French socialist statesman, shot by Vilain for his pacifist views, perceived as disloyalty in 1914, when this photo was made. Date: 1859 - 1914

Portrait of Pierre Puvis deChavannes. Artist: Leopold Flameng, French, 1831-1911 After: Léon Bonnat, French, 1833-1923

Walt Whitman, 1819-1892. American poet. From the book ""The International Library of Famous Literature"".Published in London 1900. Volume XVIII.

George Frederick Watts, R.A. Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (English, 1852-1911); after George Frederick Watts (English, 1817-1904). Date: 1888-1898. Dimensions: 24.6 × 18.3 cm (image); 45.7 × 37.2 cm (album page). Photogravure, plate 15 from the album "Lord Tennyson and his Friends" (1893), edition 138/140. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Francois Vincent Raspail -, chemist, botanist, politician, Charles Carl Reutlinger -, photographer

Walt Whitman.

'Ex-President Kruger', c1900. South African politician. Engraving after a photograph by Duffus Brothers. From "Cassell's History of England, Vol. IX". Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne

Portrait of George Fuller. William Baxter Closson (United States, 1848-1926). United States, circa 1895. Prints; engravings. Wood engraving

Elsevier photo collection. J.J.L. Ten Kate, painter (son poet J.J.L. Ten Kate). 5, 1920

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Poets, Teachers, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, Carte de Visite Collection

CHARLES DARWIN English naturalist 1809 - 1882

Portrait of William Spstroston Caine. .

CHARLES R. DARWIN, ESQ. F.R.S.

Portret van James Russell Lowell, Elliott & Fry, c. 1881 - in or before 1891 photomechanical print paper portrait of a writer

Sir Michael Foster. Photograph.

Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, dit). "Victor Hugo, February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885". Photoglyputie. 1878-1878. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. 200672-10

Walt Whitman(1819-1892) American Poet Lithograph

Sir Austen Henry Layard. Photograph by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company.

Josias Hoffman, first President of the Orange Free State. Had to resign in 1855 for sending Moshesh a barrel of powder without permission of the Volksraad.

KARL WILHELM SIEMENS German industrialist, brother of Werner von S., founder of the London branch of the Siemens organisation. Date: 1823 - 1883

Charles Darwin,1809 -1882. British Naturalist.From a photograph (1881) by Messrs. Elliott and Fry From the book ""The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin"", Volume 3. Published London 1887.

FRANCISQUE SARCEY French writer Date: 1827-1899

John M. Palmer of Illinois, from the Presidential Possibilities series (N124) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco 1888 Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. Trade cards from the "Presidential Possibilities" series (N124), issued in an unnumbered set of 25 cards in 1888 by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco.. John M. Palmer of Illinois, from the Presidential Possibilities series (N124) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.)

Sir Michael Foster. Photograph.

Schaguna, Andreas Freiherr von.

Walt Whitman, Sept. '87 Walt Whitman, New York, 1887. 1887. Portraits, Photographs. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

August Treort, Ágoston August Treffort, Hungarian Minister of Education and Religion Tieblatt of Humoristic Leaves of K, Klic , Karl Klic -, Artist, Angerer , Göschl, Realization

Walt Whitman in Camden, New Jersey, 1891. 1891. Portraits, Photographs. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

Josiah Mason. Engraving, reproduced in newspaper or magazine... Josiah Mason, industralist, also founded an orphanage in Erdington, Birmingham, 19th Century.

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, 1818-1883. Russian writer. From the book ""The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, Russian, Volume 12'

Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1869, printed 1905 Julia Margaret Cameron British, born India. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 269428

Glasgow, Annan & Sons, T. & R., John Ferguson, Portrait of John Ferguson, photomechanical print, page, photos, photographic illustrated books, height 195 mm, width 149 mm, photographer, 1886 - 1891, paper, heliogravure, Scottish, cliché maker

Dr. John C. Anthony , Carte de Visite Collection

Portrait of the author Ivan S. Turgenev (1818-1883) by Harlamov, Alexei Alexeyevich (1840-1922) / State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg / 1875 / Russia / Oil on canvas / Portrait / 144x108

Portrait of Jules Breton (1827-1906), French painter and poet, engraving by Henri Thiriat from L'Illustration, No 3307, July 14, 1906.

William Morris 1834-1896. English poet, designer and socialist reformer.

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858.

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French biologist, microbiologist and chemist. Engraving portrait.

John Tyndall (1820 - 1893) Irish physicist

Sir William Crookes (1832-1919) scientist, investigator of the paranormal

Lopez, J. M. "Victor Hugo". Albumin paper draw. 1881-02-27-1881. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. 200672-1

MR Sutro

Giosue Carducci (1835-1907), Italian poet, photograph by Casalboni, taken in Lizzano on September 28, 1904, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXII, No 1, January 1, 1905.

Robert Laws. Photograph by J. Moffat.

Joachim Józef Benedykt Lelewel, from: Tygodnik Ilustrowany, 1886, vol. 7, No. 178 Łoskoczyński, Józef (1857 1928)

William Loudon Reid. Photograph by T. & R. Annan & Sons Ltd, 1905.

Adolf Tobler (24 May 1835) (18 March 1910) was a Swiss Romance scholar, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Alfred Tennyson. Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India, 1815 - 1879)

'Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) c1891, German-English industrialist, political theorist, philosopher, and social scientist.Co-founder, with Karl Marx, of Marxism.'

Peter Egerton-Warburton 1813-1889 British colonial Police officer and explorer in Australia. Dated 1880

Charles Friedel. Photograph by Eug. Pirou.

Andrew Buchanan, M.D., Professor of Institues of Medicine; Thomas Annan (Scottish,1829 - 1887); Glasgow, Scotland; 1871; Carbon print; 21.3 × 16.3 cm (8 3,8 × 6 7,16 in.)

William Boyd Allison (died 1908) was an American politician. An early leader of the Iowa Republican Party, he represented northeastern Iowa in the United States House of Representatives before representing his state in the United States Senator.

Albumen photograph, on card, of Charles Dickens. 1868. Portraits, Photographs. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Victor-Joseph Ranvier. France, 1876-1884. Photographs. Woodburytype

Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) English orientalist and explorer. Photograph published London c1880. Woodburytype.

Sir Henry Taylor "A Rembrandt Sir Henry Taylor, A. Rembrandt . Photography by Julia-Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), 1865. Paris, Victor Hugo House.

Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, dit). Victor Hugo. Albumin paper. Paris, house of Victor Hugo.

Portrait of Ivan Turgenev by Vasili Grigoryevich Perov, Oil on canvas, 1868, 1834-1882, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum, 102x80

Elsevier photo collection. DS. Jac. Van Belkum, pastor. 1924. South Africa

Italy, Portrait of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1866. Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India, 1815 - 1879)

Portrait of Andre Calmettes in 1889, during the Representation of the Duke of Albe Portrait of Andr� Calmettes in 1889, during the representation of the Duke of Albe. Anonymous photography.

Charles Darwin 1809 - 1882

Portret Van Victor Hugo, G.L. Manuel Frères, 1913 - 1939 photograph France paper. cardboard gelatin silver print portrait of a writer

Portrait of Henri Marshal.

Guiseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot, 19th century. Artist: W Holl

Jeremiah McL. Rusk of Wisconsin, from the Presidential Possibilities series (N124) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco 1888 Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. Trade cards from the "Presidential Possibilities" series (N124), issued in an unnumbered set of 25 cards in 1888 by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco.. Jeremiah McL. Rusk of Wisconsin, from the Presidential Possibilities series (N124) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.)

Lassberg, Josef Freiherr.

PORTRAIT OF THE LATE PACHA OF EGYPT

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), escritor inglés de la época victoriana.

Victor Hugo, February 26, 1802-May 22, 1885 ". Photography of Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon dit; 1820-1910). Directed Gelatino-Bromide. 1878. Paris, Maison de Victor Hugo. 144421-5 Portrait, 19th XIXth XIX 19th 19th 19 Center

VICTOR HUGO French novelist in old age Date: 1802 - 1885

Széchényi von Sárvár-Shortened, Johann Nepomuk Graf.

James Russell Lowell, Famous Americans

John Prescott Knight 1860s John and Charles Watkins British. John Prescott Knight. 1860s. Albumen silver print. Photographs

George Tupou I, King of Tonga 1845-1893. Tupou I (c. 1797 ñ 18 February 1893), was originally known as Tufahau I, or Tupou Maeakafa Ngininginiofolanga

Alfonso II of Asturias (c.760-842). Called the Chaste. King of Asturias. Engraving by Serra Pausas, 1882.

A patient of Léon Desguin, before operation. Photograph.

JOHN RUSKIN English art critic and writer Date: 1819 - 1900

'Gen. William Booth', 1927. Creator: Unknown.

Portrait de Lord A. Tennyson (2nd plate) , Poets, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

Portrait of Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

'Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross (1823-1914) English Conservative statesman Member of Parliament for South West Lancashire 1868-1886. Home Secretary 1874-1880 and 1886-1886. Tinted lithograph c1880.'

Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, Prime Ministers - Vanity Fair. 'The Prime Minister'. Third Marquis of Salisbury. 20 December 1900, 1900. Chromolithograph.

Dom Pedro II (1825 ñ 5 December 1891), 'the Magnanimous', was the second and last ruler of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years from 1831-1889

Johann Gottfried Kinkel, 1815 - 1882, a German Protestant theologian, writer, hymn writer and democratically-minded politician, c. 1885, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Feuerbach, Ludwig.

Portrait of Johan Philip van der Kellen (1831-1906), director of the Rijksprentenkabinet / Rijksmuseum.

William McEwan, 1827 - 1913. Scottish politician and brewer. From The Business Encyclopaedia and Legal Adviser, published 1907.

Alfred Waterhouse, RA, Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope (London, England, 1857 - 1940) 1886

Generally, Bonaventura.

Photographic portrait of Martin Buber (1878-1965) an Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher. Dated 20th Century

GARIBALDI

Carl Abraham Falk. Manager at Ölans Alun Use.

Photograph: Portrait of Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893), 1978. Photographer unknown. Modern reproduction on photographic paper

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